[Xastir] how do I?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> Adding an element of practicality, Best Buy EMachines deals are often
> able to provide a smokin' computer for $400; systems from mini-itx.com
> or Soekris can do the job, as well.  In fact, for $200, the Soekris
> (www.soekris.com) systems are pretty nice.  I'm looking at several
> (hundred!) for the Texas Mesonet project as embedded data collectors and
> preprocessors.
>
> While the app name escapes me, there's a daemon available to
> transmogrify serial data into a tcp stream.  Hmmm.  Multicast stream?
> No, guess not.  Most of the carriers and ISPs aren't ready for that!

Can't you buy a MS X-Box for $175 or so and use that?  You can boot
Linux from CD and have a small self-contained Linux box for putting
at a remote site.  Just an idea.

There are probably smaller/cheaper alternatives as well.

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